Collar-fastener.



Patented Aug. 18, 1914,

A.' SCHEIBLE. COLLAR PASTBNBR. APPLIUATION FILED IUNE10.1912.

TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT SGHEIBLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COLLAR-FASTENER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT Sonnnznn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Collar-Fastener, of which the following 1s a clear, co-ncise, and full specification` reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application.

My invention relates to collar fasteners and more particularly to fasteners used for securing a collar to the neckband of the shirt at the back of the neck. It has been customary heretofore to use shanked buttons which are objectionable because the total height of the button causes an uncomfortable pressure on the neck when the collar is also buttoned in front. Moreover, it is usually diflicult to slide a neck-tie over the head of such a button.

The object of my invention is to provlde a fastener of small height, which will not cause this discomfort., which will allow the tie to slide freely `ver it, and which will not allow the collaV to move vertically with relation to the necltzand. I attain these objects by the construction shown in the ao-` companying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the preferred form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a section through the same along the line 2-2. Fig. 3 is a vertical section thro-ugh the center line of my fastener when positioned in a shirtband and collar. Fig. 4 is an alternative form having a split ring as the base part of the fastener. Fig.` 5 is a similar form with an auxiliary base flange. Fig. shows an alternative form with the ring-shaped base straightened out. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section through a collar, fastener and necktie. Fig. 8 is a side elevation showing an alternative formation of the shank.

In the drawings, Fig. l shows a metal stamping having a ring-shaped body A, to which a tongue B is joined by a. shank C, the tongue B being substantially in a plane converging downwardly toward the plane of they body A. The body A may be either a complete ring, as in Fig. l, or a split ring as in Fig. 4, in which latter case the shank carrying the tongue is attached to the arcuate body approximately at the center of the arc. Both the body and the tongue of the fastener are preferably `convex in outward section, as shown in Fig. 2, andthe shank preferably is bent at an angle of less than Specification. of Letters Patent.

Application led .Tune 10, 1912.

Patented Aug. 18, 1914. serial No. 702,880.

90 degrees with the upwardly extending portion A of the arcuate body. Thus shaped, the fastener is substantially Z shaped in vertical section, as its body and tongue constitute substantially downwardly converging members joined b the shank which forms the diagonal of t e Z. When in use, the arcuate or ring-shaped body rests between the folds I .I of the neck-band of the shirt; the tongue extends downwardly between the folds K L of the collar; and the shank passes through the button-holes of the shirt and the collar at an angle which leaves the juncture D of the shank and tongue higher than the line E along which the shank is joined to the body A. Consequently, any tendency to slide the collar downward will slip the collar closer to the band of the shirt. Likewise the slope of the shank afforded by the acute or oblique angle between the same and the back ofthe fastener will cause the collar to slide outward upon an upward movement of the collar with respect to the shirt and fastener, whereupon the tip M of the tongue B will engage the button-holed portion of the collar at some distance below the button-hole therein to effect a stopping of the said sliding of the collar away from the shirt band. It will be obvious from Fi 3 that the button-holed portion of the co lar can be slid off the shank and over the tongue of the fastener only by first tilting it with respect to the fastener' as shown by the dotted lines.

However, this tilting can only occur when the ends of the collar are unfastencd at the front of the shirt, as the forward fastening of the collar normally maintains the button-holed portion thereof substantially parallel to the neck band of the shirt and the back portion of the fastener as shown at K. Consequently, the tip M of the tongue will stop the collar when normally fastened before the button-hole thereof can reach the juncture D of the shank and tongue of the fastener.

Instead of having the shank portion of the fastener substantially straight in section (as in Fig. 3), itmay be trough-shaped, as in Fig. 8. In either case, the shank C will impinge against the upper and lower edges of the button-hole in the collar so as to prevent the collar from being slid off the shank.

While I have spoken of the tongue B as being substantially in a plane converging with that of the body portion. A of my fastener; the plane of the disk from wlricl the' shank and tongue formations were punched and bent in making the fastener) f do not wish to be limited to having these members exactly straight and parallel in` section. For example, the tongue may be curved as in Fig. 8 and still be substantially 1 in a plane intersecting the plane of the body below the lower end thereof.

1Where the fastener is to be used with shirts having a doubled fold at the back of the neck-band, the body of the fastener may "be a split ring, as in Fig. 4s, thereby enabling they tongue to be, longer without increasing -the diameter of the body. Such a split ring type might not 'be entirely comfortable if worn with a neckband having only a single fold at the back. For such usage, l therefore provide a solid base or auxiliary backbody A, as shown in Fig. 5', thereby prevent-v ing contact of the neck-of the wearer withl .the sharp edges formed by severing or` ing F made of a disk of thinmetal having its edges spun over the rim of the arcuate shearing the shank and tongue formations from the arcuate back portion of the fastener.

vwWhere the fastener is to be used only with; shirts having stiy starched, double-fold.:- neck-bands, the arcuate body may be' straightened into a cross-bar, as in Fig. 6,a provided that the 7L-shaped longitudinal section is maintained. I have found, however, that even a stiy starched band often becomes limp,l so that it requires the downwardly extending portion of the arcuate or annular body to retain the fastener in place when the collar is removed from the shirt. It -will be obvious from the drawings that the shank of the fastener need only be long enough to pass through the button-holes of the outer fold of the neck-band and the inner fold of the collar. My fasteners can, therefore, be rnade much shorter than the usual shanked collar-buttons, thereby avoiding the discomfort common with the older types. It will also be obvious from Fig. 7 that by making the tongue convex in rearward outline, the. necktie T will slide freely over it; also that by correspondingly curving the base A so as to make the back of it concave ricerca tener upwardly toward its juncture with the depending tongue, I cause any such pressure to slide the collar and neck-band close to each other, thereby reducing the possible leverage to a oint where it cannot tilt the fastener sufficiently to cause discomfort.

l am aware that collar fasteners have heretofore been made with a tongue extending downwardly through successive folds of the neck-band and collar, but I have found that such a ton e will not hold the collar securely unless 1t is connected to the body of the fastener by the shank which makes the third element of the Z-shaped formation of my invention. I have also found that the edges of the tongues of fasteners as heretofore used, will engage the necktie so as to prevent it from being slid freely to and fro. This I avoid by the conveXed formation of the tongue in my fastener.

What I claim as new and desire to cover by Letters Patent is:

A collar fastener formed from a single piece of sheet metal or the like and comprising a back wider than the button hole of the neck band of a shirt, and adapted to be, disposed within the neck band, a shank joined at one end to the said 'back and eX- tending at a slight upward incline therefrom, and adapted to pass through the substantially alined button-holes in the neck band and collar, said shank terminating at its other end in a downwardly-extending tongue, the juncture of said tongue and shank effecting a sharp acute angled bend, the lower end portion of said tongue converging toward the plane of said back, the upward incline of the shank adapted to cause the collar to slide toward the neck band upon downward motion of the collar relatively to the latter and to cause the collar to slide away from the neckband upon upward motion of the collar with relation thereto, the incline of said shank co-actmg .with the converging tongue and adapted to cause the tongue to -bear against the buttonholed portion of the collar at some distance below the button-hole thereof to resist sliding of the collar away from the neck band before the button-holed portion of the collar reaches the juncture of the tongue and shank.

D. R. Lower, ELsin Routern.

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